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Article: Hope floats ; Healthcare reaches the poorest of the poor in the far-flung riverine islands of the Brahmaputra.
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- India Today
- Article date:
- September 14, 2009
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This is one hospital with a difference: Patients don't go to it;
it floats to them. The many inaccessible islands in the Brahmaputra
river now have a common connecting link-hospital boats from the
award-winning project, Ships of Hope-that brings them quality
medical care right at their doorstep. Former journalist Sanjoy
Hazarika who was moved by the plight of the Brahmaputra's island
dwellers when he made a film, The River Story: Quest for the
Brahmaputra in 2000, initiated the unique project.
"I realised there were many human interest stories, but there was
a much bigger humanitarian problem. I once heard a story about a
Mishing tribeswoman who died of miscarriage because she could not ...